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CAST OF CHARACTERS PRISCILLA PIERCE—heroine, woman attorney. AMY KERR—Cilly’s murderer’s victim. JIM KERRIGAN—Cilly’s fiance. HARRY HUTCHINS—Amy’s strange visitor. SERGT. DOLAN—officer assigned to solye the murder of Amy Kerr.
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Yesterday: Harry Hutchins intimates that Amy had a past she wanted hidden. Cilly resenis this but nevertheless decides to check further into Amy’s life through letters, etc., she had left.
CHAPTER TWELVE
ETHODICALLY and systematically, Cilly went through Amy’s effects. For the second time that day, she looked over the contents of the bureau. . In the lower drawer, Amy kept a fairly large box filled with odd bits of jewelry. There was a locket —an old gold locket—which Cilly picked out particularly. It was the only article she’ did not remember seeing before. But that was not surprising. Nobody wore lockets this season. There was a tiny diamond chip on one side, on the other the initials “A. M. K.” Cilly slipped her thumb-nail between the two sections of gold and opened it. There were the usual sections for pictures which all old lockets contained. One was empty, in the other there was the picture of a young man—an attractive young man, apparently in his late 30s.
o 8 8 ILLY looked more closely at the picture. Where had she seen
that face before? It did not resemble Amy particularly; Amy was fair and golden, and her features
aquiline. This man was chubby, almost rotund; his eyes and hair were dark. It might have been a brother, or even her father; yet there was no definite family resemblance. Was this the man to whom Harry Hutchins referred? She doubted it, merely because she did not believe Harry's story about another man. Next, she went through Amy's section of the desk. There were, as she had told Sergt. Dolan, nothing but a few unusual recipes—an elderberry chutney, a lemon custard pie, a chocolate frosting guaranteed to remain soft. There was initialled note-paper, but Cilly had never seen. Amy write a letter. There were advertisements of fur coats; Amy had been saving up for a squirrel swagger. No, it looked as if Harry Hutchins’ intimation was - Just so much idle chatter, and Cilly put it out of her mind.
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Eun That was something to be considered. She could not subsist indefinitely on black coffee. Tonight she had better eat something. : Cilly changed the black dress for a thin cotton wrap-around, and began her preparations for dinner. One by one, she broke four eggs into a mixing bowl . ... Cooking, she realized suddenly, was & splendid tonic for frayed nerves. The monotonous, mechanical detail of it was soothing and restful. She whirred the eggbeater efficiently. It was easier to think now. : She tried to analyze the situation calmly. ; Amy had kept a secret hidden in her heart . .. someone feared lest that secret become known. He feared it so terribly that he was prepared to kill her to prevent it. Whose secret was it? Surely Amy had no connection with the type of underworld racketeer who ® stoops to murder casually. In the few months she had been living in New York, where could she have come in contact with such people? Not at the despairingly respectable residence club. Not at the conservatively correct offices of Ames & Wakefield. : ; » 2 2 ET there was Harvey Ames. Cilly reconsidered his startling
reaction to the news of Amy's death. ;
How could he have known of the tragic death of a girl in Brooklyn, when he lived in a Park Ave. apartment in Manhattan? Why had he deliberately lied about reading it in the morning papers? If someone had said to him: “I live in Brooklyn, and last night a girl in the neighborhood was killed by a fall from the roof,” that would have been commonplace. He would have said to Cilly then: “Yes, I heard that a girl was killed last night in Brooklyn.” But he would not have lost his head and said: “I read it in the morning paper.” What was there in the occurrence which had terrified him? Why did he lie? ! :
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ILLY poured a little milk into the eggs, and continued beat-
g. Did Amy’s secret, she wondered, concern Harvey Ames in some way. Did he suspect that she was in danger of her life? That would account for his terror-stricken behavior on hearing the news. Yet he had not been surprised at the tragedy . . . he had been surprised to learn that the girl was Amy Kerr, his own secretary. If he had learned about the occurrence through some source other than the morning paper, as he had in-
dicated, why had he not also.
learned who the girl was? Cilly buttered the skillet and poured the egg mixture into it. It all came back to the same starting point. What was the secret Amy was hiding? Discover that, and you would discover what people it concerned, and which ones would benefit by her death. But Amy's lips were closed in death now, and who else was there to throw any light on the matter? None whom ~~ Cilly knew, : Vg = o ” : ILLY gathered the egg shells C and put them into a brown paper bag to shrow down the incinerator. She scooped up some cantaloupe seeds also. She picked up the brown paper bag, and went put into the hallway. ~The incinerator door was stuck. Ordinarily it opened out quite easily, like a mail-box slot. You threw the refuse into the slot, from whence it fell into the incinerator shaft. ‘The shaft rose directly through the ouse, between apartments A and B on each floor, and emptied into a pit in the basement where all
refuse was burned. Cilly had never found the door stuck before. She pulled at it firmly. It budged a trifle. She could tell that something was caught in it. Something thrown from above, probably, which had in some way landed on this side-chute. © She tugged harder. Gradually the slot widened, and she would look inside and see what caused the sticking. She hoped it would not be the garbage. No ... it was a newspaper. An enormous pile of newspapers, rather, and they had become wedged into this slot as they fell down the shaft. Why did someone have to throw such a bunch at one time? Anyone could realize that it would get stuck.
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HE tried to dislocate them, one at a time, Finally she managed to work most of the pack either down the shaft, or out on the floor at her feet. She picked up her own brown paper bag and threw it down. Then she stooped to gather up the remaining sections of newspaper. As she did so, she glanced at the masthead on one of the sheets. She stopped, clutching the paper in her hand. It was headed: “Bluefields, Utah.” Quickly Cilly picked up all of the remaining sections and carried them into her own apartment. So there was someone in the house
who knew about Bluefields. Somecne upstairs who had been keeping track of developments there through the out-of-town newspapers, but who feared to keep the papers in his apartment now that the police were checking more thoroughly. 2 ” ” HE was something to interest Sergt. Dolan, Cilly thought. Here was something which would take his mind off the case he was trying to build around Jim Kerrigan. Here was absolute proof that
someone in the house had murdered Amy! Why had she so impulsively destroyed the piece of newspaper clipping which had fallen from Amy's lifeless fingers? Cilly wished she had it now, to mark it “Exhibit A” and tie it up with these newspapers from upstairs. But perhaps the timetable which Dolan had found in Amy’s bag, so definitely marked to indicate the same place, would be sufficient. Cilly caught a whiff of burning omelet: she hurried into the kitchen. She could sit down to ‘dinner now with less of the heavy dread which had dulled her digestion all day. She could enjoy the omelet and the cantaloupe. For Jim was free of the encircling web of circumstance and suspician!
(To Be Continued)
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ARIA hated to hurt Jimmy, | even if there no longer existed between them that fine understanding and affection that at first had made their marriage such a success. She remembered the promise they had made each other at the very outset that if the going proved to be too tough for either of them the truth must be made known to the other. With thorough appreciation of cold fact, they could arrange for
a divorce or whatever other solution they might find feasible. That promise at. the time had seemed absolutely logical and the possibility of becoming estranged from each other remote! ” 2 ”
T= years of marriage had taught her that when two persons spend their lives together, there are certain ties which are not so easily broken—ties that were intangible but held with the tenacity of steel cables. In her mind's eye she could readily picture the hurt look in Jimmy’s eyes if she bluntly told him about her love for Dan! Of course Jimmy would never stand in her way if he thought that she really loved Dan and wanted things to stand that way. But the very thought of breaking the news to him and arranging details of departure required a courage that Maria doubted she possessed. . . . #: 8 =n IMMY sat at his office desk and looked at papers he actually didn’t see while his mind was running around like a turtle inside a hatbox, Like the turtle, too, he was attempting to find his way out of a dilemma and finding an insurmountable wall inclosing him upon every side.
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Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. Does a bridegroom ever ask men other than his ushers and best man to his bachelor dinner? . 2. Is it correct for a bride to show her trousseau informally to a group of friends? 3. Where should the monogram be placed on a pillow slip? 4. When sheets are mono--grammed, does the base or the top of the letters go next to the hem? 5. In a wedding procession, do the ushers precede the bridesmaids down the aisle?
What would you do if— You were having a small wedding party and there are more men than women who rightfully belong at the bride’s table? A. Not be concerned about the uneven number? : B. Put the ushers at another table? C. Add a woman guest or two to make the numbers even? 2 8 2
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ed to think of other men in a position like his and what they would do to solve their problems. How does a man gracefully go about riding himself of a woman he no longer loves but who has been faithful and devoted to him for years? Especially if there was such small doubt that she still retained a deep and trusting affection for him?
” ” 8 T was no good to weigh the comparative merits of Maria and Elaine in an attempt to come to a decision. It was plain that Elaine was the one whose destiny should have been allied with his from the
very first. He most certainly would never have married Maria five years ago if he had been able to peek through the curtain of the future! True, he still had a very deep and lasting affection for Maria. She had always been a wonderful wife and
1 had never caused him the troubles
that other men’s wives in their set had been known to cause. But still it wasn’t love, the kind that made his pulse leap when he was with Elaine. ” ” ” O, the fact was apparent that he no longer could live without Elaine. The hest way to do would be to cut all bonds at one clean stroke and have it over with. He would allow Maria to get the divorce and willingly give her as much of their. money as she wanted. He plotted all the rest of the day and finally came to a workable solution. He would fake a business trip, meet Elaine on the train. He would leave a note on his dresser explaining the situation and giving Maria instructions as to what plan it would be best for her to follow. When Elaine dropped into the office the next day in response to his call, he carefully explained the plan. To his momentary surprise she readily agreed. Women could be callous! He extracted $300 from his wallet. ; ” ” ” 5 “* OU get the tickets and meet mi at the station, dear,” he instructed her. “To some place as far away from here as possible. I'll go home and pack and meet you at 3.” He went home with a heart that was light and at the same time heavy. He carefully explained to Maria that he was suddenly called away and would have to leave that afternoon. Maria’s heart contracted and then suddenly exploded. She and Dan had made plans to go away that afternoon before Jimmy came home! And there was a worried frown on her face when the doorbell rang at 2:30 and Dan smilingly greeted her. : He immediately offered to drive Jimmy to the station. Maria silently applauded his astuteness. He would make sure that Jimmy was really gone. Jimmy bade Maria an affectionate farewell and got into Dan’s car parked at the curb. ...
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“PP HANKS a lot, Dan,” Jimmy said appreciatively. “I'll be
seeing you later!” He strode into
| the station and Dan watthed him
disappear with thoughtful Then he chuckled. - Elaine came around the corner of the building and got into the car while Dan was still chuckling. “I'm glad you called when you did darling,” he complimented. “And just why?” she wanted to know.
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Q—What were the life-time major league batting averages of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker?
“The gal gave me four hundred she had saved, just for safekeeping. He gave you three hundred for the tickets, the sap! Not bad at all, is it?” Elaine eyed him adoringly. “Enough for a smart getaway for two smart people,” she said, “and a grand honeymoon!” Dan put the car in gear and the station, Jimmy Bou Maria disappeared in the disance.
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A—Cobb, .366; Ruth, .346; Speaker, .345.
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stances in which twins have been | involved by tumors. In 36 cases, beth members of the twins had tumors. Those of each couple were in géneral of the same “type, affected the same organ and appeared at approximately the same time. However, there is encouragement in the fact that cancer tends to breed out of the race. Moreover, in human beings the question of heredity is not one that can be easily controlled. In general, it is safe to say that the cancer itself is not inherited, but that the liability or susceptibility to cancer may be inherited in certain conditions. #2 8 = : WO people may marry, both of whom have®a susceptibility to cancer of the stomach. In such cases, obviously, their children will inherit the kind of a stomach which is likely to be susceptible. \ There are, however, many families in which both parents have had the same kind of cancer, but in which none of the children died of cancer. z Insurance companies have, of course, been particularly concerned with this question of inheritance of cancer. The evidence has not thus far been sufficient to cause any insurance company to refuse insurance because one of the members of the family died of can-| cer or to ask an increased premium | because some one in the ancestry had cancer. . There are, moreover, other facts which are of interest in this con-
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